Lisbon urban train tickets

See all the tickets for occassional journeys on the Lisbon urban trains.

If you only use the Lisbon urban trains occasionally, there is a series of tickets you can choose from and which are adapted to different needs. They are all loaded onto a reusable "Viva Viagem" card which costs just €0.50.

This card only lets you use one kind of ticket at a time, so you cannot top it up with new tickets until you have used all the old ones.

You must get your tickets for the Sintra, Cascais, Azambuja e Sado lines at the station from the ticket offices or the ticket vending machines before boarding .

Remember to validate your ticket before boarding. Customers should keep their receipt while the tickets are valid.

After validating a ticket on your Viva Viagem card, do not conduct any other operations with it during the journey validity time, such as buying new tickets, as this could cancel the validation.

Families and groups of friends with 3 to 9 members who travel together at weekends or on public holidays can get a family and friends ticket, valid for one day for an unlimited number of journeys on the day it is bought over the chosen route on the Sintra, Cascais, Azambuja and Sado lines.

A tourist ticket gives you unlimited travel on the Sintra, Azambuja, Cascais and Sado lines for 24 or 72 hours in a row after validation. On the last 30 minutes of the validity only let you leave the stations, not enter them.

No other tickets can be loaded onto the Tourist Travelcard while this is still valid.

What is it: All-in-one ticket between CP and Lisbon Transports. Use this ticket as many times as you want, (24 hours) on Lisbon urban trains, buses, lifts, funiculars, trams and metro.

How to use it: Valid on Lisbon urban trains, Sintra / Azambuja, Cascais and Sado Lines, for 24 hours after the first ticket validation on any of the transports included. On CP, the last 30 minutes of the validity only let you leave the stations, not enter them.

Always remember to validate your ticket before boarding.

You have to have a “Viva Viagem” card per person. If you do not have a Viva Viagem card, you can always buy one for just €0.50. Valid for 1 year.

What is it?:This is a ticket for CP and the Scotturb buses that is ideal for tourists. The ticket gets you to the main points of interest in Sintra, Cascais and Lisbon. The ticket also allows for privileged access to the main points of interest in Sintra, Cascais and Lisbon. The ticket is valid on the CP Cascais and Azambuja lines (between Alcântara-Terra and Oriente) and all the Scotturb bus network except for the Giro service.

How to use it: The ticket offers an unlimited number of journeys that have to be used on the day it is bought and up until the last train/bus of the day. The ticket is loaded onto a "Viva Viagem" card that is only valid for one person.

Where to use it:

Main Scotturb routes

Cascais - Cabo da Roca - Colares - Sintra

Sintra - Castelo dos Mouros - Palácio da Pena

Price:

The ticket costs €15.50 and can be purchased from any Lisbon urban service ticket office or ticket vending machine.

What is it?: It's an all-in-one ticket created through a partnership between CP, Scotturb, Sintra Parks and Sintra town hall. The ticket lets you visit the main places of interest in and around Sintra and there are two different tickets:

How to use it: the ticket is valid for the day it is purchased up until the last train on the Sintra line. The ticket is loaded onto a "Viva Viagem" card, valid for one person only. The reusable "Viva Viagem" card costs €0.50, plus the price of your ticket and is valid for a year.

Price: Sintra Green Card 1 costs €27.00 and the Sintra Green Card 2 costs €35.00 and can be bought from any Lisbon urban trains ticket office. Keep your receipt until the end of your journey.

Other benefits: Customers can also take advantage of discounts when they rent an electric bike from Park&Bike in the old centre of Sintra if they prove they bought a Sintra Green Card.

What is it?: Zapping is a pre-paid card that lets you travel on on CP, Carris, Metro de Lisboa, Transtejo/Soflusa, Fertagus e Metro Sul do Tejo, according to the rules in force for each operator.

You can use your VIVA Viagem / 7 Colinas or Lisboa VIVA* cards. The price of each journey is discounted from the balance on the card depending on each operator’s fares.

*If a passenger has a monthly pass and Zapping on a Lisboa Viva card, the zapping journey will only be validated and discounted if the monthly pass is not valid at the station where they board the train.

How to use it:To use Zapping on CP, validate your card at a card reader or access gate and €1.90 will be discounted from your card.

After validation, you can travel on any route and in any direction as often as you like for 90 minutes, though you can end your journey in the next half hour, but you cannot re-enter the stations or trains.

With the €1.90 validation you can only change within the Lisbon urban services for 90 minutes. To see the balance on the card, swipe it over a specific card reader in the ticket vending machines or at any ticket office.

How to top it up:

You can top-up the card with amounts of a minimum of €3 and a maximum of €40;

These tickets are for passengers who want to travel further that the limits of their normal ticket or pass. The journey extension tickets have to be bought from the ticket office or ticket vending machines at the departure station.

The journey extension ticket does not need to be validated as its time to be used (2h30) starts from when it is purchased.